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Little detail most ppl probably missed: in the first panel, Uncle Sam's hand is upside down. So his hand ring actually says "OWN" which is something Americans love to do (buy stuff, consume, have things they do not need).

One thing that Tat goofed on is that he put the Shell logo on Miss America in the 2nd panel. I know why he put the clam there, because it's by her groin, but Shell is actually a dutch oil company, not an American one. Good choice though

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Little detail most ppl probably missed: in the first panel, Uncle Sam's hand is upside down. So his hand ring actually says "OWN" which is something Americans love to do (buy stuff, consume, have things they do not need).

Nah, I think it's New World Order, because that's what the USA is always trying to bring about. Add to that the fact that if his hand is upside down (ignoring for a moment that the rings are 'upside down' on purpose because the letters are intended for people he's facing, not himself, much like mirror writing) then it would spell OMN, not OWN.

idontknow wrote:

One thing that Tat goofed on is that he put the Shell logo on Miss America in the 2nd panel. I know why he put the clam there, because it's by her groin, but Shell is actually a dutch oil company, not an American one. Good choice though.

Goofed? Not necessarily. Maybe he was, perhaps, you know, hinting at the USA's slight fondness for petrol?

idontknow wrote:

right. it wouldn't be Kswiss because they're British.

I've not even British, but I love how many americans can't even recognize the union jack, such as seen in the K-swiss logo.

Well, I'm British, and 1) I've never heard of K-Swiss, and 2) I don't see the union flag in their logo. Of course, since I've never heard of K-Swiss, I could be finding the wrong one, because the first thing I did was to look it up and found an American company called just that, with a very US flag-oriented logo. So please point me to the correct one because I'm confused.

Every other company on Miss America is an extremely well known American mega-corporation, except for Shell Oil.

If he simply wanted to make the point of America's fondness for oil, why not use Exxon or Chevron, which are both American companies.

Maybe it's because Exxon doesn't have a logo (other than EXXON, and that's quite long) and the Chevron logo could be confused with something else. It's not like Royal Dutch Shell doesn't have have the American subsidiary Shell Oil Company. And until the 1990s, the US Shell logo was different from what the rest of the world used.